Hame-chime



(No Modelx) R. A. WooDING.

HAMB CRIME.

Patented Sept. 2.1', 1.886.

I JV' VEN TOR WIT-MESSEs Mwst 946m UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.,

RALPH A. wooDING, oF KENSINGTON, CONNECTICUT.

HAME-CHIME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 349,623, dated September 241l 1886.

Application filed April El, 1886. Serial o. 190.606, (No model.)

To @ZZ whom it 77mg/ concern:

Be it known that l, RALPH A. WooDING, a citizen ofthe United States, and a resident of Kensington, in the county of Hartford and State ofConnecticnt, have invented eertai n new and useful Improvements in Hame-Chimes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appert-ains to make and use the same, reference being had to the aeeompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, and -i n which- Fignre 1 is a perspective view of as much of the collar and haines of a harness as will illustrate the application of my improved hame-chime. Fig. 2 is a similar view of the chime removed from the llames and collar;

and Fig. 3 is a vertical sectional view of one of the bells and its standard.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to chimes of bells for applying tothe hames and collar of aset of harness; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of a chime having a yoke or frame, which may be secured upon the collar under the haines without any other means for fastening it than the haines, as hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates a yoke having a shape corresponding to the shape of the upper portion of the collar, and this yoke may be placed with its legs resting in the groove B in the collar G, the hames D being thereupon placed over the legs of t-he yoke, retaining them inplaee.

The haine-strap E is placed into the concave upper side of a transverse curved bar, F, at the top of the. yoke, the said bar having its ends curved upward, and the upwardlybent ends will prevent the yoke from slipping to either side, the ends engaging the strap. A bow or frame, G, is secured with its ends to the legs of-the yoke, being either cast integral with the yoke or heilig secured to the same, and the upper portion of the bow is provided with a number of posts 0r uprights,

II, to the -ends of which the bells I of the chime are secured. The posts are preferably formed, asshown in Fig. 3, with a shoulder or collar, J, `near the upper yend, and terminating with a screw, K, and the central perforation of the bell, and of the frame supporting the hammers or clappcrs L, it upon this screw and are secured by the nut M. The shoulder will afford a wide support for the under side of the perforated portionof the bell, and will thus keep it in itslp'roper position and prevent it from being tilted to the sides.

. The yoke and frame may beeither cast in one piece, or they may be made ol' malleable metal in separate pieces, and be united by means of rivets or similar means.

Having thus described my invention, I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- A llame-chime consisting of a yoke formed to conform tothe shape of the upper portion of a collar and provided with a cross-bar at its npper end formed with upwardlybent ends, and

of al frame secured with its ends to the legs of the yoke, and having a ehime`of bells secured to uprights upon it, as and for the purpose shown and set forth.

Witnesses:

CHARLES M. BRowNE, CORNELIA S. BROWNE. 

